Home Essentials 97 and Winword

[claudiathompson]

Hello,

I recently made a mistake and did a complete HP system restore ad now Ive got to re-install alot of my programs. One of them is a program someons else installed a long time ago on my computer called Home Essentials 97. I really used Winword from that CD all of the time and now its gone. I dont want any of the newer versions, I want the one that I had.

But when I try to install it from he CD it acts like it went through the entire installation. I can click on the shortcut I put on my desktop and it tells me to insert the CD, and I do and it works. But I wanted to install it and keep it there without having to use the CD.

I tried clicking on everything that I thought could be the right thing that would set it up on my computer but to no avail. Can anyone help please?

I jus want my Winword back

and why it is that when I click on the Winword icon and have the CD inserted and it does work- why isnt the normal 'table' options there? I liked the ones that look like the kind of 3-d tables I do on my html pages, but those are there anymore. The ones that used to be at the very end of the list of table options. Where did they go?

 

[Bill2]

1) Word 97 is unlikely to work perfectly in Win7. Every product has a life cycle and one should pay heed to that fact. If for some reason, you must use Word 97, try it in a virtual environment such as MS Virtual PC or VMWare or Virtualbox.

2) Suggest you buy a copy of Office 2010 or Office 2007. If you want a free office suite, try Open Office.

OpenOffice.org - The Free and Open Productivity Suite

 

[ccatlett1984]

Office 97 does not work well with windows 7, we have failed it in testing at work. Major issues in all apps.